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It is reported that the thesis section is available, to publish abstracts of postgraduate theses in the disciplinary field. Who submits your thesis, must present the title, abstract, key words (include Occupational Therapy), and a summary of 2 to 3 pages of your thesis. And `present it in Spanish, English and / or Portuguese.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY IN HARDSHIP SITUATIONS: REFLECTIONS ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Authors
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Marta Hernando Pina
Unidad de Rehabilitación de Salud Mental de Navarra
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1094-5994
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Miguel Ángel Valverde Eizaguirre
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5574-9049
Abstract
The beginning of a new socioeconomic crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic allows us to anticipate a time of change, including relational lifestyles and economic recession. A possible decrease in resources suggests an increase in difficult situations for individuals and families in many vital areas.
People without resources to survive and care for their loved ones are at the extreme end of a range of hardship situations. Hardship, an adversity in itself, is the origin of many other types of adversity, and a risk factor in many areas of life. In these situations, people display behaviors that result strange and pose a challenge for professionals and support systems. Hardship requires an understanding of this condition, which is receiving increasing attention from a psychosocial perspective, in order to provide effective help.
These situations of poverty are of special interest for occupational therapy, as a discipline that activates resources focused on the occupational and work horizon, and also means a challenge for these professionals, and even for the profession itself and its place in services. But this challenge reaches the “expert model” itself, that underpins the activity of sectorized services and also to the whole professions that carry out their activity in them, regardless of their practice area.
